Cigarette making device



Jan. 5, 1932. s VAN NUYS 1,839,717

CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE Filed Dec. 16, 1930 I, r% w \Z if.

I Irwenior Jyanz Van fla Q By I A llomey Patented Jan. 5, 1 932 STATES STANLEY VAN NUYS, F RICHMOND, INDIANA CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE Application filed December 16, 1930. Serial No. 502,785

This invention relates to a device for forming cigarettes from a sack of tobacco, the general object of the invention being to provide a tube having means whereby the mouth of the sack of tobacco, may be fastened to one end thereof in such a manner that the tube can be turned While the sack is held stationary, with means at the inner end of the tube for causing the tobacco, when the tube is turned, to enter the tube and thus fill a paper tube formed around the outer part of the first-mentioned tube.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several m views, and in which Figure 1 is a view showing the device in use.

Fig. 2 is a view of they device itself with a paper tube shown thereon in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a similar view with the paper tube partly pushed from the device.

Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of the device. As shown in these views, the device comprises a tube 1 having a. pair of flanges 2 adjacent one end thereof, the flanges being spaced apart as shown and this end of the device is formed with the teeth 3.

In using this device, the mouth of a sack of tobacco is placed between the flanges 2 and the string pulled taut, so as to fasten the 40 mouth of the sack around thatpart of the tube between the flanges. Cigarette paper is then rolled around the outer part of the tube 1 as shown at 4 in dotted lines and the end of the paper tube closed as at 5. p The tube 1 is then turned while the bag is held stationary, which movement will cause the teeth 3 to force the tobacco to travel thru the tube 1 into the tube 4 to push the tube 4 oil the tube 1 as shown in Fig. 3.

With this invention, the cigarette can be.

easily and quickly formed even in a high wind. The device prevents waste of tobacco and when used in a house there is no litter caused by spilled tobacco.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A cigarette forming device comprising a tube having a pair of spaced flanges adjacent one end thereof, this end of the tube having teeth thereon, whereby when a sack of tobacco is placed over the inner end of the device with its mouth held between the flanges by the string of the sack, and the tube turned, the teeth will cause the tobacco to enter the tube to fill a paper tube placed on the outer part of the tube.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

STANLEY VAN NUYS. 

